Motherboard typical form factors

Type of expansion buses

What are the components of a motherboard?

How many chipsets does a motherboard have?

What is northbridge?

What is southbridge?

What does DMI stand for?

What does DMI do?

What is the data transfer rate of original DMI?

What is the data transfer rate of DMI 2.0?

What is QPI?

What is QPI for?

What is Intel's old name for northbridge?

How is the MCH connected?

What is Intel's old name for southbridge?

What does SATA stand for?

Where is SATA connected?

What does SATA do?

What is the rate of SATA 1st gen?

What is the rate of SATA 2nd gen?

What is the rate of SATA 3rd gen?

Which generations of SATA are most compatible with today's motherboards?

Where does PCIe connect to?

What does PCI connect to?

Which is faster? PCIe or PIC?

What is a lane?

What is a full duplex lane?

PCIe version 1 data rate

PCIe version 2 data rate

PCIe version 3 data rate

PCIe version 4 data rate

PCIe version 1 frequency

PCIe version 2 frequency

PCIe version 3 frequency

PCIe version 4 frequency

PCI frequency version 1

PCI data transfer rate

How can we tell the number of lanes in a PCIe bus?

x16 slots are controlled by the ____

x1 slots are controlled by ___

What is PCI?

What is PCIe?

PCI is not only used by devices that fit into PCI slots but ____

PCI version 2.1 frequency

PCI version 2.1 data transfer rate